NEW YORK - The No. 14 Columbia women's squash team will
begin the 2013 calendar year this weekend with a pair of matches against Ivy
League opponents. The Lions will meet No. 9 Brown for a noon matchup at The
Squash Club - Chelsea Piers in Stamford, Conn. on Saturday, Jan. 12 and then
return home Sunday to take on No. 2 Yale at the SL Green StreetSquash Center at
2:30 p.m.

Columbia opened the season with a home loss to No. 6 Cornell
on Dec. 2. The Big Red swept the match, but not without a fight from Columbia.
Catherine Jenkins and Katie Quan each forced four sets in their respective
matches, while Monica Stone played a spirited first set against Brynn Daniels,
but fell 14-12.

Following this weekend, the Lions will play nine of their
remaining 10 matches on the road, including the next eight. Columbia's only
home match after Sunday comes on Feb. 8 when No. 5 Penn visits New York City.

Scouting Brown
The Bears enter Saturday's contest with an unblemished 4-0 record, having not
lost a single individual match to date. Brown has topped No. 18 Wesleyan,
Wellesley, NO. 21 Colby and No. 28 Connecticut College all by scores of 9-0.

Playing as the No. 1 for Brown, Dori Rahbar has secured wins
in each of her first four matches. The Bears defeated the Lions last season,
8-1. Columbia's Quan captured the lone win for the Lions in the No. 5 match,
11-8, 5-11, 11-4, 11-7.

Scouting Yale
The Bulldogs have posted a 3-0 mark through the early portion of the 2012-13
slate. A 9-0 win over the season at home against No. 15 Franklin & Marshall
on Nov. 30 kicked off the season. Yale followed that win with back-to-back
shutouts of No. 21 Colby and No. 10 Williams on Jan. 5.

Yale returns a pair of players that finished the 2011-12
season ranked in the top-10 of the individual poll. No. 2 Mille Tomlinson and
No. 6 Kim Hay are both in the midst of their junior campaigns for the Bulldogs.